Political And Economic History – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 7

Anthony B Atkinson
Measuring Poverty Around the World

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the …

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R Jisung Park
Slow Burn

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun-from lower test scores to higher crime rates-and how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the pro…

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Matt Barlow
Taxing for Development

Taxing for Development shows that tax is a profoundly political problem, associated with debates about the role of the state, the market, and business-state relationships.

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Fragile Aid

This book offers fresh, in-depth understandings of the effectiveness of development cooperation in fragile contexts, and where challenges regarding the effectiveness of development cooperation are most pr…

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Michael Hiltzik
Golden State

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."---Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom…

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Gord Magill
End of the Road

" This may be the most enraging book you have ever read. It will certainly be one of the most illuminating. " --Matthew B. Crawford, author, Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road An…

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Hannah Forsyth
Virtue Capitalists

"Forsyth examines the rise of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. She argues that the British middle class structured forms of virtue into expanding white-coll…

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André Wink
Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World

This book provides a new answer to an old and often-asked question: why did the bulk of conversion to Islam take place not in the imperial heartlands of the Indo-Islamic world but among the indigenous pop…

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Augustus Wood
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta

"Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black working-class voters. T…

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Juan Francisco Santini, Flavia Sacco Capurro, Daniel Rogger, Timothy Lundy
Data for Better Governance

This report provides a conceptual framework to assess and provide guidance on the government analytics agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean, and how the region can harvest the benefits of GovTech inv…

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Peter S Goodman
How the World Ran Out of Everything

By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain ---exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that…

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Benjamin Selwyn, Christin Bernhold
Capitalist Value Chains

Is it true that Global Value Chains (GVCs) 'boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty', as commonly claimed? In this compelling book, Selwyn and Bernhold show how the mainstream notion of GVCs…

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John Crowe Ransom,
Land!

Ransom's Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites John Crowe Ransom's poetic sensibilities with his argument for an agrarian economy as an alternative to capitalism.

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Patrick Mcgee
Apple in China

"Phenomenal...a jaw-dropping book." ---Jon Stewart, The Daily ShowNamed by both the New York Times and t he Economist as one of the best books of the year so far, this "scrupulously reporte…

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Dimitri A Sotiropoulos, Nicos P Mouzelis
Global Governance and Social Democracy

"This ambitious book offers a global perspective on the nature of capitalism; its past and future possibilities of survival; the differentiation between neoliberal, authoritarian and social democrati…

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Richard Vague
The Banker Who Made America

If you haven't followed the money, chances are you don't know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America's dominant merc…

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Dominic Frisby
The Secret History of Gold

Revealing the sweeping saga of the world's oldest---and most treasured---currency, this is the first definitive history of gold.The Secret History of Gold tells the sparkling, eye-opening, and definitive …

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Saurabh Mukherjea, Nandita Rajhansa
Behold the Leviathan

In defiance of the stereotypes trotted out by yesterday's pundits, modern India's rise is both unusual and unexpected. It is unusual because some of the sharpest economic improvements are being observed i…

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Brooke Harrington
Offshore

This engrossing deep dive exposes how the shadowy global system of offshore finance fuels economic crises and austerity while also undermining democracy and the rule of law. Sociologist Brooke Harrington …

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Brooke Harrington
Offshore

This engrossing deep dive exposes how the shadowy global system of offshore finance fuels economic crises and austerity while also undermining democracy and the rule of law. Sociologist Brooke Harrington …

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